US History B Timeline

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  • The invention of the Model T

    The Model T was the earliest effort to make a car that most people could actually buy
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    US History B Timeline

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    In January 1917, the German Foreign Office sent the Zimmermann Telegram, a covert diplomatic message suggesting a military alliance between Mexico and the German Empire in the event that the United States joined the war against Germany.

  • The WWI Armistice

    The WWI Armistice were French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Supreme Commander

  • The 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment was the amendment that gave woman the right to vote.

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    Charles A. Lindbergh left Long Island's Roosevelt Field in a single-engine plane built by Ryan Airlines. The plane, named the Spirit of St. Louis, would not touch ground again until it reached Paris, France.

  • Black Thursday

    a then-record number of shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange by panicked investors, marking the onset of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression.

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.

  • The Munich Pact

    Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defense to Nazi Germany.

  • Hitler Invades Poland

    The Invasion of Poland, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the beginning of World War II.

  • Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese attacked america

  • The New Deal

    The New Deal included new constraints and safeguards on the banking industry and efforts to re-inflate the economy after prices had fallen sharply.

  • D-Day

    These two dates stand on opposite ends of American involvement in the war, and their meaning could not be more different. D-Day put the Allies on a decisive path toward victory.

  • The formation of United Nations

    The UN was established to promote international cooperation and to achieve peace and security. The idea of the UN was first proposed by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who envisioned it as a replacement for the defunct League of Nations.

  • The Long Telegram

    The telegram was a response to US inquiries about Soviet behavior, especially with regard to their refusal to join the newly created World Bank and International Monetary Fund

  • The formation of NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance, the organization was created by the United States and 11 other Western nations in response to the threat of further Communist expansion.

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

    The Soviet Union’s acquisition of the atomic bomb was a significant event in the Cold War. It ended the United States’ monopoly on nuclear weapons and increased tensions between the two superpowers.

  • The Korean War

    The war began when North Korea, supported by the Soviet Union and China, invaded South Korea. The United States and other countries, under the auspices of the United Nations, intervened on behalf of South Korea.

  • Brown v Board of Education

    The case was filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on behalf of Oliver Brown, a Black parent whose daughter was denied admission to an all-white elementary school in Topeka, Kansas.

  • The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white passenger.

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    atomic bombs where set off in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day political and military standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union.

  • JFK’s Assassination

    John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated.

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    The resolution was passed in response to an alleged attack on two US naval destroyers stationed off the coast of Vietnam

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    The Apollo 11 mission was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon, the mission was commanded by Neil Armstrong, who became the first person to step onto the Moon’s surface, followed by Buzz Aldrin

  • The invention of the Internet

    The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network.

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

    Nixon’s resignation was a result of the Watergate scandal, which began with the June 17, 1972, break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the destruction of the wall and the figurative Iron Curtain. It was a significant event in the Cold War and had a profound impact on US-Soviet relations. The fall of the Berlin Wall also helped to pave the way for the reunification of Germany.

  • The 9/11 Attacks

    The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks carried out by the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against the United States.

  • Covid-19 Pandemic

    The COVID-19 pandemic is a global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).